Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson entered the presidency a national hero out of the West for his heroics portrayed during the War of 1812 and his expedition against the Seminoles in Spanish Florida. A natural leader, he commanded immense loyalty from supporters. No man of his time was at once so loved and so deeply despised. His blunt words and acts forced men to declare themselves, for or against him. The movement we have come to call Jacksonian Democracy …

…more accurately than this oppenent the historical significance of the Jackson movement. Originally a fight against political privilege, the Jacksonian movement had boradened into a fight against economic privilege. Whn Jackson left the office, he was the hero of lower and middle class epoel who believed in expanding opportunity through equal rights. And by the time of his death in 1845, even Webster had noticed that Jackson had left a long lasting mark upon the nation.